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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
卷 29, 期 2, 页码 227-234出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2008.07.001
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Egocentric/allocentric representations; Large-scale environment; Gender differences; Familiarity
This paper reports a study of how familiarity and gender may influence the frames of reference used in memory to represent a real-world regularly shaped environment. Familiar and unfamiliar participants learned the locations of three triads of buildings by walking on a path which encircled each triad. Then they were shown with maps reproducing these triads at five different orientations (from 0 degrees to 180 degrees) and had to judge whether each triad represented correctly the relative positions between the buildings. Results showed that unfamiliar participants performed better when the orientation of triads was closer to the learning perspective (0 degrees and 45 degrees) and corresponded to front rather than to back positions. Instead, familiar participants showed a facilitation for triads oriented along orthogonal axes (0 degrees-180 degrees, 90 degrees) and no difference between front and back positions. These findings suggested that locations of unfamiliar buildings were mentally represented in terms of egocentric frames of reference; instead, allocentric frames of reference defined by the environment were used when the environment was familiar. Finally, males were more accurate and faster than females. and this difference was particularly evident in participants unfamiliar with the environment. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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